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The Vortex (1928)
Character: Nicky Lancaster
A young man is shocked to discover that his fiancé is the mistress of his mother's lover.
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Symphony in Two Flats (1930)
Character: David Kennard
A young composer goes blind, and shortly afterward enters his most recent work in a competition. He believes he's won, but doesn't know that his wife couldn't bear to tell him that he didn't. Complications ensue.
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Der fesche Husar (1928)
Character: Lieutenant Stephen Alrik / Feri von Noszty
The daughter of an American millionaire falls in love with a Hungarian hussar officer during a visit to the Austrian Empire.
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Sleeping Car (1933)
Character: Gaston
A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she married him because she wants to stay in France. Complications ensue.
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Miarka, la fille à l'ourse (1920)
Character: Ivor
Miarka is to marry a gypsy chief - whereabouts unknown. She and her tame bear live upon the estate of an old gentleman who tolerates them because of his interest in gypsies, and more particularly because he has a gypsy document which he cannot decipher. One day, the gardener, who is in love with Miarka, robs the master and sets fire to the home, making it appear that she is the guilty one.
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A South Sea Bubble (1928)
Character: Vernon Winslow
'Girl reporter and insane fiancé join pirate's descendant in treasure hunt.' (British Film Catalogue)
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I Lived with You (1933)
Character: Prince Felix Lenieff
In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still has a number of diamonds given him by the last czar, and he is persuaded to start selling them. The resulting money, and his princely notoriety, soon cause changes in everyone's lives.
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Bonnie Prince Charlie (1923)
Character: Prince Charles Stuart
In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
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The Return of the Rat (1929)
Character: Pierre Boucheron
The rich, amoral Zelie is married to Pierre Boucheron, "The Rat" - but her interest in another man is an open secret. Forced to defend his honour, the Rat takes refuge in his old domain of the Paris underworld. But even here he has a rival - and when murder is afoot, the sinister Morel's ambition threatens to cost the Rat dear....
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The Triumph of the Rat (1926)
Character: Pierre Boucheron, 'the Rat'
Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' and a former underworld notoriety, is now living the high life as the kept man of Zelie de Chaumet. But when she learns he is planning to marry another woman, her vengeance pursues him into the murkiest depths of Paris...
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The Constant Nymph (1928)
Character: Lewis Dodd
Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless. The young composer Lewis Dodd, a longstanding friend of the family, falls in love with their cousin Florence when she comes to take the girls back to England. But little Tessa Sanger is in love with Lewis herself, and when she runs away from school and comes to live with Florence and her husband, their already-shaky marriage is further undermined
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Downhill (1927)
Character: Roddy Berwick
When school captain Roddy Berwick takes the blame for his friend’s scandal, he is expelled and disowned by his family. Cast out of his privileged world, Roddy drifts through a series of humiliations—from waiter to penniless actor to gigolo—descending ever further into ruin and self-disgust.
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The Rat (1925)
Character: Pierre Boucheron
When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' , boy-king of the Paris underworld, and the innocent Odile. Love, life and jewels are risked and lost in this powerful romantic melodrama as the four characters' lives are changed by this chance encounter for ever.
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The Man Without Desire (1923)
Character: Count Vittorio Dandolo
A grief-stricken 18th-century Venetian gentleman is thwarted in love and placed in suspended animation. When he wakes up 200 years later, he finds the experiment has more serious unexpected consequences.
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
Character: The Lodger Jonathan Drew
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
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Once a Lady (1931)
Character: Bennett Cloud
A young Russian woman marries a wealthy Englishman, and has a daughter with him. After she has an affair with one of his friends, she is forced to leave Britain and moves to Paris. Many years later, her daughter approaches her, needing her help.
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Carnival (1921)
Character: Count Andrea Scipione
An actor playing Othello in a stage production of Shakespeare's play becomes jealous of his wife's supposed infidelity and seems bound to kill her in the scene in which she, enacting Othello's falsely accused wife Desdemona, is murdered by her jealous husband.
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The White Rose (1923)
Character: Joseph
A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes charge of his assigned parish, decides to go out and see what "the real world" is all about. He winds up in New Orleans and finds himself attracted to a poor, unsophisticated orphan girl, Bessie. One thing leads to another, and before long Bessie finds that she is pregnant with Joseph's child.
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Autumn Crocus (1934)
Character: Andreas Steiner
A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria.
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The Lodger (1932)
Character: Michel Angeloff
An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
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The Bohemian Girl (1922)
Character: Thaddeus
A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.
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